let us begin. so we began to answer the call to carry forward the torch to ask what we could do for our country. we began to get america moving again. and we began an era that would recast america's future that would set us on course to address so many of the challenges facing us 50 years ago, and still confronting our nation today. as i reference his ask not what we can do for our country, everybody knows that that was an important part of the president's call to action in that day. citizens of america ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can to for your country. it's memorized by students all over the world. when he delivered it it was so stirring. but what i remember is the next, very next sentence, the very next sentence he said, to the citizens of the world, ask not what america can do for you, but what we can do working together for mankind. it was just so beautiful. and so that, no wonder, one of the first actions would be to establish the peace corps. renewed beginning, wi